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Yeshiva World News - A Beis Din of three of prominent has been convened to establish the parameters of the mitzva of Vi-ahavta Li-rayacha Ka-mocha - Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Due to the delicate topic and to protect the Rabbonim and their families - they have remained anonymous.
These are their conclusions:
One need not love: Someone who votes for a different candidate, a chazzan who davens too slow or too fast, the fellow whose parked car is blocking yours, a chossid need not love a non-chossid, a non-chossid need not love a chossid. A Charedi need not love a non-Charedi and vice versa. A wife need not love and respect her husband if he isn't the PERFECT husband and vice versa. Anyone with a different hashkafa. A poor person going around shul or to your front door collecting. Sefardim need not love Ashkenazim and vice versa. A person who lives in a different country or has visited or even ..... seen pictures of a different country.
The Rabbonim determined that in our day and age the mitzva is too difficult so they felt compelled to find the above-mentioned leniencies.
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Serious questions:
Do we really *love* other Jews?
What does that even mean?
How is this love expressed?
Is it a priority?
Do we consider someone religious if he does not love most Jews?
Is a person who davens 3 times every day but is indifferent to most other Jews considered more religious than someone who is overflowing with love of other Jews but only davens twice a day and not always with a minyan? What does the Torah say about that?
Do we lose sleep at night over the plight of others? Should we? If we don't - what does that say about us? How do we fix that??
